1 Retraction Note to: The Journal of Supercomputing (2018) 76:1086–1104 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-018-2587-z

The Editor-in-Chief and the publisher have retracted this article. The article was submitted to be part of a guest-edited issue. An investigation by the publisher found a number of articles, including this one, with a number of concerns, including but not limited to compromised editorial handling and peer review process, inappropriate or irrelevant references or not being in scope of the journal or guest-edited issue. Based on the investigation's findings, the Editor-in-Chief therefore no longer has confidence in the results and conclusions of this article.

The Author N. Arunkumar agrees with the retraction. The authors Mazin Abed Mohammed, Mohd Khanapi Abd Ghani, Salama A. Mostafa, Mohamad Khir Abdullah and M. A. Burhanuddin disagree with this retraction. The author Raed Ibraheem Hamed has not responded to correspondence regarding this retraction.